Hindu temple Emoji

Travel

A stone structure featuring a traditional shikhara tower, typical of architecture found in Hindu places of worship. The building is colored in shades of orange or terracotta, topped with a golden finial.

Usage Context

Used to denote travel to historic sites, celebrate religious festivals like Diwali, or mark the location of a temple. It is often grouped with other spiritual icons such as 🙏 or 🪔 to convey a sense of devotion or cultural heritage.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2019 as part of the expansion of religious and cultural landmarks. Its inclusion acknowledged the global importance of Hindu architecture and provided a specific graphic for users to identify these sites in travel and social media discussions.

Details

Glyph

🛕

Unicode

U+1F6D5

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f6d5:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDED5;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Travel

Subcategory place-religious

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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